AI incident
Over-reliance on driver-assist automation
Tesla · 2023
Organisation
Tesla
Year
2023
Failure mode
Automation over-reliance
Severity
critical
Domain
Critical infrastructure safety
Agentic
Yes — an AI system acting, not just advising
Source
NHTSA investigations
What happened
Crashes linked to drivers trusting partial automation beyond its operational limits.
What would have prevented it
Effective human oversight + enforced operational design domain
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.